CHAOS vs Kaissa at the 1st World Computer Chess Championship in Stockholm. Soviet chess master and Kaissa developer Misha Donskoy (right) on the telephone to Moscow during the 1st World Computer Chess Champsionship. Alan Baisley faces him, overseeing the board on behalf of Chess 4.0. Kaissa's strong performance stunned the computer chess world: it won all four games.
Seems there are some errors associated with that text. Kaissa was white against Chaos, and on the Photo Kaissa seems to have black. Since Alan Baisley was operating Tech II, I guess the Photo shows the game Tech II vs. Kaissa of round two. Additionally Misha Donskoy was not exactly a Soviet chess master, as he stated in History of Kaissa:
I was, in spite of entire force of Soviet chess school, deliberately weakest chess player of all authors of programs.
Can anybody confirm that Alan Baisley is the guy at the left, operating Tech II? Does anybody know, who the guy behind Donskoy is?
The last email address I had was donskoy -@- disco.ru
I don't know what his rating was back then. I think I have it somewhere, though.
As for Mr. Baisley... It would have to be either the Tech2 or Chaos vs. Kaissa match. Judging from the board colors, it certainly looks like Tech2.
You could ask Mr. Alexander or Fred Swartz. They'd recognize him.
You could ask Mr. J. Gillogly (author of Tech 1)
I looked but did not. I did not make that event even as a spectator. I recognized Donskoy, having met him more than once (he was at the 1977 WCCC event in Toronto where I played as well). Tech/tech-2 did not play there.
